This book aims to provide a comprehensive and novel account of the stress-assignment properties, selection processes, productivity and combinatorial restrictions of native and non-native suffixes in Present-Day English. Null conversion, secondary-stress and the stress principles governing native and neoclassical compounds have also been dealt with.

Ives Trevian is a tenured senior lecturer accredited to direct doctoral research in Linguistics at Paris-Diderot. His publications – which include two books published by Peter Lang in 2003 and 2010 – have centred on stress assignment, morphophonology, affixation processes, neoclassical compounds and English-language history.

Contents: S-1 and auto-stressed suffixes – Neutral suffixes – Mixed suffixes – S-1/2 suffixes.